re: #94 Romantic Heretic

This calls into my mind my thought that even had they won, the Confederacy was doomed.

It was founded on the principle, “If I don’t wanna, I don’t havta!” The first time that Georgia, say, and Alabama got into a difference of opinion about something and the Confederate government tried to solve it, one or both states would have flipped the Confederacy the bird and struck off on their own.

In a short time the South would have been as fragmented and politically weak as Germany in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. That wasn’t fun for Germany and it wouldn’t for the South either.

THat’s a really good point. Anyhow, from my understand, the governor of Georgia, Joseph Brown did not like the draft that Davis imposed on the CSA. From what I’ve read, he saw Davis as nothing better than a tyrant. Interesting analogy though to 15-16th century Germany. Not really something I know a lot about since most of my education in German history is post unifcation.